Film theory & criticism books

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Making the Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation

Making the Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic...

Author: Alison Macor
ISBN: 9781477318911
Format: Hardback
$88.00

How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder.  Read More >>

The Tao of S: America's Chinese & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film

The Tao of S: America's Chinese & the Chinese Century...

Author: Sheng-mei Ma
ISBN: 9781643363073
Format: Hardback
$81.40

Provides an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary...  Read More >>

Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television

Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television...

Author: Jean-Luc Godard ,  Timothy Barnard
ISBN: 9780981191423
Format: Hardback
$462.00

In 1978, just before his return to the international stage, director Jean-Luc Godard improvised a series of fourteen...  Read More >>

Horror Bulletin Monthly July 2022

Horror Bulletin Monthly July 2022

Author: Brian Schell
ISBN: 9798839163256
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Contents: The TENTH issue of the Horror Guys Monthly review digest, Horror Bulletin, includes reviews of thirty-five...  Read More >>

The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect

The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect...

Author: Padraic Killeen (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781501349683
Format: Hardback
$190.00

""Invoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark Interval...  Read More >>

Christopher Lee: The Lonliness of Evil

Christopher Lee: The Lonliness of Evil

Author: Stephen Mosley
ISBN: 9781644301289
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies

Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies

Author: Susan J. Fernandez ,  Robert P. Ingalls
ISBN: 9780813068749
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Offers the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida’s extraordinary scenery, characters,...  Read More >>

White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema

White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities...

Author: Tony Tracy
ISBN: 9781438489094
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in...  Read More >>

No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder...

Author: Fareed Ben-Youssef
ISBN: 9781438489278
Format: Hardback
$261.36

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror...  Read More >>

Whiteness at the End of the World: Race in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Whiteness at the End of the World: Race in Post-Apocalyptic...

Author: David Venditto
ISBN: 9781438489438
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry

ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry

Author: Marcelline Block (Adjunct Professor, LIM College) ,  Jennifer Kirby (Senior Tutor, Massey University)
ISBN: 9781474456029
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential...  Read More >>

Music and Sound in the Worlds of Michel Gondry

Music and Sound in the Worlds of Michel Gondry

Author: Kate McQuiston (University of Hawai'i, USA)
ISBN: 9780367631024
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Music and Sound in the Worlds of Michel Gondry examines the hybrid nature of Gondry’s work, his process of collaboration,...  Read More >>

Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film

Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film

Author: Dina Heshmat (Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, the American University in Cairo)
ISBN: 9781474458368
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial...  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader

ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader

Author: Michelle E. Moore (Professor, College of DuPage) ,  Brian Brems (Associate Professor, College of DuPage)
ISBN: 9781474462044
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Providing a comprehensive exploration of his groundbreaking achievements in cinema, the book considers Schrader's...  Read More >>

James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film

James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film...

Author: Keith Williams (Reader in English Literature, University of Dundee)
ISBN: 9781399500692
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's...  Read More >>

ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive Outsider

ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive Outsider...

Author: Henry Bacon (Professor, University of Helsinki) ,  Kimmo Laine (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Turku)
ISBN: 9781474442183
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the...  Read More >>

Women in the Western

Women in the Western

Author: Professor Sue Matheson (Associate Professor of English, University College of the North, Canada)
ISBN: 9781474444149
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Explores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genre...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions

The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions

Author: Dominic Lash (Film scholar, n/a)
ISBN: 9781474462785
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Examines disorientation and confusion, and their theoretical implications, in contemporary narrative film  Read More >>

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal...

Author: Agnieszka Piotrowska (Reader, University of Gdansk)
ISBN: 9781474463577
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways...  Read More >>

Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties

Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the...

Author: Mark McKenna (Associate professor, Staffordshire University)
ISBN: 9781474451093
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Considers the technological, economic and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the...  Read More >>

The Invisibilities of Political Torture: The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television

The Invisibilities of Political Torture: The Presence...

Author: Berenike Jung (Lecturer in Film Studies, King's College London)
ISBN: 9781474437004
Format: Paperback
$49.99

By casting a wider net on the definition of torture, the author promotes a radical, theoretical reframing of our...  Read More >>

Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image in the 1960s

Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the...

Author: Matilde Nardelli (Senior Lecturer, University of West London)
ISBN: 9781474444057
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The book offers a radical rethinking of Michelangelo Antonioni's work. It argues against prevalent understandings...  Read More >>

Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema

Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary...

Author: Andrew Utterson (Associate Professor, Ithaca College)
ISBN: 9781474440738
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Channelling a focus on the history of cinema into the present and beyond, Persistent Images: Encountering Film History...  Read More >>

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